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28 Feb 2005, 1:43 pm
[JURIST] In Monday's international brief, France's National Assembly [official website in French] met today in joint session with the country's Senate [official website] at the historic Palace of Versailles to approve an amendment to the French constitution [official text] that would permit the nation to hold a referendum on approving the proposed European constitution [official website]. [read post]
18 Sep 2006, 8:28 am
[JURIST] France [JURIST news archive] will grant amnesty to 6,924 illegal immigrants [JURIST news archive] with school-age children, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy [official profile, in French; BBC profile] announced Monday. [read post]
7 Nov 2004, 12:16 pm
[JURIST] Iran, Britain, France and Germany reached a preliminary agreement in Paris Sunday on Iran's use of nuclear technology. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 10:03 am
[JURIST] Some forms of online piracy in France are on the rise in spite of the recently passed anti-piracy law [legislative materials, in French; JURIST news archive], according to a March study [text, PDF; in French] conducted by the Marsouin Unit [official website, in French] at the University of Rennes [official website]. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 8:06 am
[JURIST] The French Council of State [official website, in French], France's highest court, ruled [opinion, in French; press release, in French] Monday that the French government bore responsibility for deporting Jews during World War II, while denying further reparations for individuals. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 1:25 pm
Noriega arrived in France Tuesday morning after being extradited [JURIST report] from the US, where he had served a 17-year sentence on drug charges. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 3:08 am
[JURIST] French politicians are criticizing a court's decision to postpone a Muslim suspect's trial on armed-robbery charges during the holy month of Ramadan [Beliefnet.com backgrounder], arguing that it violates France's constitutional separation of church and state. [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 7:34 am
Noriega currently awaits trial in France on money laundering charges. [read post]
22 Jul 2005, 3:44 pm
[JURIST] Italy and France announced new security measures Friday designed to combat terrorism following the recent London bombings [JURIST report]. [read post]
22 Jun 2005, 8:09 am
[JURIST] France's Justice Ministry [official website] announced Wednesday that it would appeal the "lenient" sentences imposed on French peacekeeping soldiers convicted Tuesday [JURIST report] by a Paris military court of robbing an Ivory Coast bank while supporting a UN peacekeeping operation in the area. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 6:00 am
[JURIST] The French Senate and National Assembly [official websites, in French] voted 560-181 at a special parliamentary session Monday to pass an amendment [text, in French] to the French Constitution [text, English version] that paves the way for France to adopt the new EU reform treaty [JURIST news archive], properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon [official website; PDF text]. [read post]
22 Nov 2005, 9:04 am
[JURIST] French Ambassador to the US Jean-David Levitte [official profile] said Monday that France was "back to normal" following three weeks of rioting [JURIST report] and he denied that religion played a role in the violence, which was prevalent in largely Muslim communities. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 4:45 am
[JURIST] French President Nicholas Sarkozy [official website, in French] admitted [text, PDF, in French; video, in French] Thursday that France and the international community made "mistakes" in handling the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 9:09 am
[JURIST] France Wednesday formally agreed to abolish the death penalty in all circumstances when it ratified [press release, in French] a provision of the European Convention on Human Rights [text; death penalty dossier]. [read post]
26 Oct 2005, 8:43 am
[JURIST] The United States and France circulated a draft UN resolution Tuesday that demands that Syria fully cooperate with a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive] and threatens economic sanctions should Damascus not cooperate. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 12:04 pm
[JURIST] French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie [official profile] and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner [official profile] on Wednesday announced plans to create a special judicial service to investigate and charge individuals accused of crimes against humanity and genocide in France or in other countries. [read post]
20 May 2008, 3:46 pm
[JURIST] Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] Monday asked the US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to block his extradition to France, arguing in court filings that extradition would violate his prisoner of war (POW) status. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 9:47 am
[JURIST] An aid worker was charged in a French court Wednesday with conspiring to allow illegal residents into the country in connection with an aborted airlift of 103 supposed Darfur [JURIST news archive] orphans from Chad to France last year. [read post]
5 Jun 2004, 6:11 am
On Saturday in the southwestern French town of Begles, two men were wed by the town's mayor, Noel Mamere, in the first same-sex marriage in France. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 1:02 am
[JURIST] France's practice of expelling non-citizens accused of links to violent extremism lacks sufficient procedural safeguards and undermines human rights [press release], according to a report [PDF text] released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch [advocacy website]. [read post]
